Curriculum Vitae

POSITION: Marine Biologist

ON-GOING STUDIES: currently PhD Biology candidate

WORK EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

PERSONAL SKILLS

Mother tongue: Spanish

Other languages:

Organisational/managerial skills: Experience with group dynamics, at "Pollos San Juan" as owner-manager (3 employees), at several non-profit associations ("Ecologistas en Acción", "La Breva", in Málaga-Spain) as President, Secretary, Treasurer.

Digital skills:

• Good command of office suite (word processor, spread sheet, presentation software)
• Good command of R, Mathematica, Joomla! und Mediawiki (University)
• Good command of MacOSX und bash (University)
• Zoom usage and event streamings (OBS, YouTube and Twitch)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Publications:

• Espada‐Hinojosa, S., Karthäuser, C., Srivastava, A., Schuster. L., Winter, T., De Oliveira, A. L., Schulz, F., Horn, M., Sievert, S., Bright, M. (2024). “Comparative genomics of a vertically transmitted thiotrophic bacterial ectosymbiont and its close free‐living relative”. Molecular Ecology Resources 24(1):e13889. doi:10.1111/1755-0998.13889.
• Breyer, E., Espada-Hinojosa, S., Reitbauer, M., Karunarathna, S. C., Baltar, F. (2023). "Physiological properties of three pelagic fungi isolated from the Atlantic Ocean". Journal of Fungi 9(4):439. doi:10.3390/jof9040439
• Espada-Hinojosa, S., Drexel, J., Kesting, J., Kniha, E., Pifeas, I., Schuster, L., Volland, J.-M., Zambalos, H. C., Bright, M. (2022). "Host-symbiont stress response to lack-of-sulfide in the Giant Ciliate mutualism". PLoS ONE 17(2): e0254910. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0254910
• De Oliveira, A. L., Srivastava, A., Espada‐Hinojosa, S., Bright, M. (2022). "The complete and closed genome of the facultative generalist Candidatus Endoriftia persephone from deep‐sea hydrothermal vents”. Molecular Ecology Resources 22(8):3106-3123. doi:10.1111/1755-0998.13668
• Bright, M., Espada-Hinojosa, S., Volland, J.-M., Drexel, J., Kesting, J., Kolar, I., Morchner, D., Nussbaumer, A., Ott, J., Scharhauser, F., Schuster, L., Zambalos, H. C., Nemeschkal, H. L. (2019). "Thiotrophic bacterial symbiont induces polyphenism in giant ciliate host Zoothamnium niveum". Scientific Reports 9(1): 15081. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-51511-3
• Volland, J.-M., Schintlmeister, A., Zambalos, H., Reipert, S., Mozetič, P., Espada-Hinojosa, S., Turk, V., Wagner, M. & Bright, M. (2018). "NanoSIMS and tissue autoradiography reveal symbiont carbon fixation and organic carbon transfer to giant ciliate host". The ISME journal 12(3): 714. doi: 10.1038/s41396-018-0069-1
• Bright, M., Espada-Hinojosa, S., Lagkouvardos, I., and Volland, J.-M. (2014). "The giant ciliate Zoothamnium niveum and its thiotrophic epibiont Candidatus Thiobios zoothamnicoli: a model system to study interspecies cooperation". Frontiers in Microbiology 5. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00145
• Espada-Hinojosa, S. (2002). "Modelos de alimentación ecológica". Consum@ étic@ n° 0, p. 21 (in Spanish)
• Espada-Hinojosa, S. (2002). "Pesca y alimentación ecológica". Europa Azul n° 68, p. 71-73 (in Spanish)
• Luna, A., Espada-Hinojosa, S., López, C., Alés, G. (2002). "Transport system environmental assessment of an urban agglomeration integrated in a coastal wetland: Bay of Cádiz (Andalusia, Spain)", en Veloso F.; Taveiro, F.; das Neves, L. (eds.) "The Changing Coast. Vol. 3". Porto, Portugal. p. 69-74
• Luna, A., López, C., Espada-Hinojosa, S., Alés, G. (1999). "Evaluación ambiental estratégica del plan intermodal de transporte metropolitano de la Bahía de Cádiz", en Domínguez, M. (ed.) "El paisaje urbano en el marco de la sostenibilidad". Segovia. p. 257-276 (in Spanish)

Presentations:

• 2022, Prague (Czech Republic). Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. "Phenotypic plasticity of both partners in the giant ciliate Zoothamnium niveum thiotrophic mutualism". Poster
• 2017, Piran (Slovenia). 52^nd European Marine Biology Symposium. "Partner fidelity feedback maintains the giant ciliate Zoothamnium niveum – Cand. Thiobios zoothamnicoli mutualism". Oral presentation
• 2012, Cádiz (Spain). I Iberoamerican Congress on Integrated Coastal Zone Management. "La integración del conocimiento sobre la costa andaluza y sus limitaciones: El deslinde de la costa gaditana y los Baños del Carmen (Málaga)". Oral presentation (in Spanish)
• 2008, London (United Kingdom). CoastNet. "Planning and environmental assessment, limitations and potentials. The example of the transport system in a coastal urban agglomeration: Bahía de Cádiz (Andalucía, Spain)". Oral presentation
• 2006, Wien (Austria). 5^th International Symbiosis Society Conference. "The implications of symbiotic revolution for human survival: a symbiodiversity approach". University of Málaga, Spain. Poster
• 2003, Córdoba (Spain). 3^rd Environmental Education Andalusian Congress. "Simbiodiversidad: Una superación del enfoque reduccionista, homocéntrico y transmisivo en la universidad como aportación a la educación ambiental". Poster (in Spanish)
• 2002, Oporto (Portugal). Litoral. "Transport system environmental assessment of an urban agglomeration integrated in a coastal wetland: Bay of Cadiz". Poster

Projects:

• 2003, Coordination of the project: "Conservation of the coast of Málaga (Andalusia, Spain)" for "Ecologistas en Acción". Regional government of Andalusia (Spain)

Seminars:

• 2001, Organisation of the Workshop "Sustainability" of the Universidad de Cádiz (Spain)

Honours and awards:

• 1998, 3^rd Prize "Research in Urban environment" Seville Municipality (Spain)